On Mon 19 Jun 2017 at 10:44:23 +0000, Blair, Charles E III wrote: > I am an unsophisticated user who has finally gotten > around to upgrading a desktop from wheezy to jessie. I am > trying to follow the instructions in the "release notes," > but don't really know what I'm doing. > > My current question is to clarify the instructions about > mounting partitions at the beginning of section 4.4. I > think I am supposed to issue as superuser the commands > > mount -o remount,rw / > mount -o remount,rw /usr > > Are there any other mount commands to issue before > apt-get upgrade ? How do I find out? I don't think > it matters, but this is a dual-boot using grub with > windows as the other system.
Issue the command 'mount' as a user. For / I get /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) so the beginning of section 4.4 would not apply to any upgrade I did.